Air Purifier Autumn Allergies

Preparation for the fall allergy season should begin well before the colors of autumn start to delight us. Fall can be a pleasant experience for allergy and asthma sufferers if the proper steps are taken including cleaning out or checking your air purifier. ClearFlite recommends that owners know when their filters should be changed or their units cleaned. Putting a little label on the unit when you first get your air purifier or when you put in a new filter is a good way to keep track.

The king of the beautiful season of autumn, is an unsightly and ubiquitous plant called Ragweed. Ragweed springs up along roadways, vacant lots and parking areas, and other sunny spots including your lawn and garden if you haven’t taken steps to prevent its growth. Your HEPA air purifier is the perfect device to capture the pollen grains that emerge from ragweed plants. Why do so many people suffer respiratory problems from ragweed? Consider this: one ragweed plant alone produces a billion pollen grains. These tiny pollen grains can travel by air up to 700 miles! In any area where there is a lot of ragweed, the air is full of pollen, and that is why ClearFlite highly suggests making sure your air purifier is ready for it. Closed up though your home may be because of your air conditioning or heating, the pollen travels in on clothing, shoes, and through opening and closing doors or windows.

If you or your child are allergenic or asthmatic, take steps to rid your yard of ragweed and ask your neighbors to do so also. Ask the child’s school not to allow ragweed to grow outside open windows at the school or in the playground areas. You may want to consider buying an air purifier for your child’s classroom. ClearFlite has had many customers who do so, arranging it so that the air purifier travels with the child to the next classroom year to year.

Another problem that emerges with the coming of fall and cooler weather involves mold. Mold counts go up in the late months of summer when the air tends to get humid. Your HEPA air purifier is designed to remove all airborne mold spores. When cool weather begins and people turn on their furnaces for the first time, they unwittingly distribute mold spores throughout the house, because the mold has been quietly and comfortably growing in the pipes all summer. So before you crank up your furnace system, make sure your air purifier is ready and run it on the highest speed for the first few hours after you turn your heating system on.

Dust mites (and their fecal matter) which is a major problem for many people are a year-round problem, but they also can be blown out into your home when you turn the furnace on for the first time. This is another reason to run your air purifier on High when you first start up the heating system. If you purchased your air purifier from ClearFlite and are unsure of whether or not it is time to change the filters, please don’t hesitate to call us at 800.497.8263. We’ll check your file.